Growing up, we turn to our parents, friends, teachers, and communities for guidance like our lives depend on it. Because it does. We have no idea yet how to live, how to learn, how to dress, how to be. Through being explicitly told what to do and implicitly observing what we should do, we learn to earn love and acceptance by living in accordance wi... See more
Cissy Hu • A lifetime of should-ing
THE JOURNEY TO SELF ACCEPTANCE
Gerry Valentine • The Thriving Mindset: Tools for Empowerment in a Disruptive World
We must all begin with an introspective journey to establish our individuality. In exploring your essential uniqueness (Einzigkeit), you have then to be willing to go against the grain – reject formal, traditional, official ways where necessary and be ready to suffer the consequences. The resultant marginalisation should drive you to become as self
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